Friday, May 8. 2015

WE WILL FAIL is a project focused on the pleasure of wandering. Field recordings, tape samples, synthesizers and electronic drum kits are mixed together in order to find some peculiar quality, referring to the aesthetics of techno. The person responsible for this project is Aleksandra Grünholz - a Polish graphic designer, who paradoxically spends most of her time making music. She manipulates her recordings in creative ways, creating multilayered techno collages. Her debut album Verstörung and the follow-up Verstörung 2.0 with new edits as well as fresh material were both released by Monotype in 2014. In April 2015 she had her first concert in Sweden at the Intonal festival in Malmö.

Talk: Inter Arts Center the 25th of April
Performance: Inkonst the 24th of April

The Polish Institute in Stockholm increases public awareness about Poland and its culture, encourages cultural exchange between countries, organises study trips to Poland, supports residency programmes for Polish artist in Sweden, informs about current and on-going initiatives in Poland.

Mats Almegård is a cultural journalist and PhD in German literature. He has been writing about electronic and experimental music for more than a decade in swedish and international media. Mats is the producer and reporter of the show Elektroniskt i P2 med Andreas Tilliander – the show on electronic music on Swedish National Radio.

Apart from magazines, newspapers and radio, Mats has also made a film documentary about (swedish) electronic music, called Ström åt folket.

A record player, or a Gram[m]ofon, is more than just a device that plays back music. Combine it with a record collection and you have a machine that plays back a person’s history. A record collection is a very personal thing, and when the headphones are not connected it might just gossip loudly about one’s childhood, infatuations, disappointments, joys, sorrows and passions. If a record collection could be said to be the soundtrack of your life, the record player might just tell us who you are.